Class of 1917
Boston staged another rousing party on April 29, down at Boston Yacht Club, overlooking the harbor. After dinner Hank Loudon ran off two color reels, depicting spring on the campus, at the cabins, and with the Canoe Club on the Connecticut. Then followed the Tremendous Twentieth Reunion film produced by Scott and Sewall, received with copious laughter, comment, and applause. Next, Hank put on a surprise color-short of the reunion, which he had kept up his sleeve for this occasion.
A very representative group of Seventeeners was present:—Andy Anderson, Asty Bartlett, Slatz Baxter, Mott Brown, Jack Crenner, George Currier, Al Emmons, Will Fitch, Harry Hawkes, Flank Loudon, Spique Maclntyre, Sam MacKillop, Connie Murphy, Sunny Sanborn, Ray Sault, Errol Thompson, Gene Towler, and Johnny Wheelock, eighteen in all. It was great to see Jack Crenner and Harry Flawkes back in the fold for the first time in many years. And men who are regularly absent from class dinners going on in several cities where they live may take inspiration from the fact that classmates came to a regular, usual Boston dinner from Marion, Mass., Norwich, Conn., and Kennebunk, Me.!
Early in April the Dartmouth Musical Clubs appeared in Montclair, N. J. The Emersons, Switzers, and Swetts were guests at the advance dinner party of the Koenigers at South Orange.
Don Brooks visited Jackson, Miss., where he won a copyright infringement case for the Texas Corp., so did not mind when his train was marooned by a flood for eight hours on the return trip. (Oh, no?)
Johnny Wheelock is the new assistantto-the-president of the Boston University, Club and will devote much effort to membership, you Boston guys should know.
The Concord Independence Battery, at a sunrise breakfast the 19th of April, Paul Revere Day, fired twenty-one guns. George Currier was a tamper of the brass cannon. • • • ■ The rest of us at a distance may not know much about this tamping business. But we do know that when Helen Currier called the roll the Hallorans and Maclntyres were found present, and it was an important holiday in good old Massachusetts.
Len Shea, sales manager of Thom McAn's womens shoes for the Melville Shoe Cos., 551 Fifth Ave., has shown his heels to the rest of the class in attending receptions, parties, and dances at the new New York Dartmouth Club.
Recently Win Scudder, Barney Gerrish, and your scribe had lunch together in Boston. Win ferrets out deals on downtown Boston real estate with W. J. McDonald at 1 Court St., and looks fit as a fiddle. Gerry looks just as he did in college, and runs the lumber business of Palmer and Parker Co., at Charlestown, Mass. He has a retail yard, but the big business is importation of mahogany and walnut. After leaving them we ran into Ike Sprague, who says suburban real estate business in Wellesley is nothing to cheer about, so he spent the month of December in California with his family. And Deering Smith is taking his there for the month of May. He says Hunk Stillman, also of Nashua, won the New Hampshire bridge championship.
Dr. Baxter says that in spite of a busy season professionally, he has had a lot of fun all winter playing the traps in a local band. They don't have coroners in Massachusetts, they have medical examiners, and that's Slatz in quite a big area around Marion, just as a side line. That makes him a real "G man."
Will Fitch returned from his Mediterranean cruise in April.
ON TO STANFORD!
The Boston Alumni Association will have a special train to the Stanford game next November, and 1917 will have a special car. A great trip at reasonable rates. If interested write Howard Stockwell, 80 Stone Road, Belmont, Mass., right now, as the car is nearly sold out.
The Thielschers were in Bermuda a couple of weeks during April.
After his return from Florida, Bob Scott wrote in March:
"I played a lot of golf, including threepro-amateur tournaments, but did notshoot any scores to brag about. I feelpretty ancient and decrepit in the water,as that daughter of mine can swim like afish and leaves me behind as if I had ananchor dragging.
"Talked with Mil Palin at the club lastNight. He looks well and, prosperous.
"I expect by the end of this summerthat I will become quite nautical and beable to talk the same language as HobeyFord. A small group of us at Westbrookhave bought 'Comet' boats and hope toget in a little racing among ourselves."
Keyes Page joined Don Brooks and your scribe at one of the regular Monday luncheons at the Dartmouth Club in April.
If any Seventeener believes efforts to improve government should start at home, and wants to do his bit but doesn't quite know how to proceed, he should com- municate with Harold J. Tobin, professor of political science at Hanover. Did you read Hal's article, "Dartmouth in Politics," in the November 1957 issue of the MAGAZINE?
Arch Earle is teaching English and business correspondence at the Katharine Gibbs School, • 230 Park Ave., N. Y., in addition to assisting the school's president in administrative work; says he's looking for employers in New York, Providence, and Boston, who want the world's best secretaries and office help (Adv't). Arch and Margaret are living in Great Neck. "Gary" (Ed Jr.) is twelve and "Sandy" (Sanford) is nine. Arch has been doing the entertainment act for alumni groups around New York all winter and is call- ing out 1917 for another dinner May 16, with plenty of music.
Of interest to all, but especially to philatelists Gile and MacKillop, is Sam White's letter from Fairbanks, Alaska, dated April 15:
"I sent your 'cover" to Barrow a week ago with Charlie Brower, an old trader who has lived there for years. You may have read some of his magazine articles. He chartered a plane from here to take him up. I am not sure whether or not your letter will return on the same plane. If not it will go by dog team to Nome, via the monthly winter mail service, unless another plane happens along before the dog team leaves. It might be a couple of months getting out.
"A new foreign airmail route opens up the first of next month between Juneau and Fairbanks via Whitehorse. We have been striving for this contract for five years. It will probably be eventually extended to Seattle. I am addressing a couple of covers for you for this opening. There will probably be a special cachet.
"I ate up all the class news in your letter. I sure want to plan my next vacation in the football season if it can be done.
"I had my first stage experience this winter. During our Winter Carnival, we staged 'The Drunkard' for a couple of performances, and threw me the role of Cribbs, the villian. It was handled here, the same as outside, with the audience at tables with free beer, and went over with a bang.
"Got a set of the '17 steins a short time ago, which have been duly christened, and will be highly prized."
As we go to press, your Secretary expects to attend the Class Secretaries' Meeting at Hanover, May 13 and 14. Slatz Baxter, secretary of the South Eastern Mass. Alumni Association, hopes to be there, and Spique and Ruby Maclntyre-possibly others—are aiming at this weekend in Hanover.
If you're one of the Seventeen gang who generally shows up for Commencement every year don't forget to bring your green reunion jacket.
CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS BOOK
Carl C. Colby teaches Spanish at U. S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn., and lives at 1 Nameaug Ave.; Dr. C. Marshall Davison's home address has changed to 835 Thatcher Ave., River Forest, Ill.; his office is at 43a S. Wolcott Ave., Chicago; Irving L. Sperry is now located at American Sugar Refining Co., iso Wall St., New York; Elmer W. Berry has moved to 10 Dow St., Salem, Mich.
John S. Ferguson is at Works Laboratory, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. His home is at 1251 Parkwood Blvd. John is a chemical engineer, and was recently granted a patent by the U. S. government on a "catalytic material and process of making same." The patent was assigned to General Electric, the latter's press agent reports.
Harry and Alice Hawkes live at 35 Arnold Place, Norwich, Conn., with Wilson, 9, and Henry, 3.
THE JOB AHEAD
This is the last issue of the MAGAZINE on your current subscription. In September Treasurer Brooks will send you a bill for dues for the fiscal year starting at that time, and for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE beginning with the October issue. News for these columns has come from a great many thoughtful men during the past year; their help is greatly appreciated. Please keep on sending news all summer!
June first! Only 30 days left for your Alumni Fund checks. As we go to press, Spique Maclntyre has reported a bare start for the class. Bunny Holden is heading a team of workers in Boston, Sumner Emerson is leading the New York boosters, Bruce Ludgate at Philadelphia, Harry Worthington at Chicago, and Al Shiels on the West Coast. All members of the 1917 National Committee have been asked to help in their districts, everywhere. This year is a test to determine whether we can lift our relative position to better than "just an average class."
DARTMOUTH NEEDS EVERY 1917 DOLLAR BEFORE JUNE 30TH
Secretary-Chairman, 18 Madison Ave., Cranford, N. J.
